Management of SARS in the post-outbreak period

A detailed document published by the WHO describes a SARS alert mechanism for the post-outbreak period. It provides guidance for managing a SARS "alert" through to laboratory confirmation or exclusion of persons under investigation as SARS cases and guidance to clinicans on the clinical presentation, laboratory and radiological findings to assist in diagnosis of SARS and in decisions to implement transmission-based infection control (WHO, August 14).